Trading and Financial

Steadfast offers comprehensive financial IT and telecommunication services, focused on low latency and high reliability. We operate data center facilities near the financial exchanges of Chicago and Northern New Jersey/New York, giving us unparalleled scope in the services we can offer, including: low latency managed dedicated servers, proximity colocation, managed colocation, network and server monitoring services, and more.

We understand your need for speed & reliability

At Steadfast, our systems and infrastructure are designed to be low latency and highly available at every level, so our priorities are aligned with your trading strategies. Time to market and consistency has a material effect on trading firms' bottom lines, and that's where we focus our time and energy. Data connectivity and power infrastructure at 350 E Cermak Rd is 2N redundant, so your systems won't go down, especially not during critical trading hours. Combined with our proactive monitoring services, we've designed everything to be geared for speed and reliability.

Get Started Today

You can get started with low latency, highly available trading in just 7 simple steps:

Order a server using Windows Server 2012 R2 or 2016 (64 bit) as your operating system, which is fully supported by NinjaTrader, TradeStation, and MultiCharts.

Get a welcome email in less than 24 hours with your login credentials, and have access to your server with Windows and remote desktop already installed and ready to go.

Login to your server using Remote Desktop, even across multiple monitors, and use it like your desktop at home.

Run Windows Update and make sure you install all updates to assure you have the most recent version of .Net framework. (You should already have a recent build of Windows, but always check!)

Install your trading platform of choice, such as NinjaTrader, TradeStation, or MultiCharts.